{"id":50232,"date":"2012-08-05T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=50232"},"modified":"2013-11-08T03:30:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T08:30:22","slug":"language-culture-and-color-a-visit-with-the-himba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/08\/05\/language-culture-and-color-a-visit-with-the-himba\/","title":{"rendered":"Language, Culture, and Color: A Visit with the Himba"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Earlier this week I wrote a post asking\u00a0Is the Sky Blue?<\/a>, discussing the way that culture influences our perception of color. \u00a0In the comments thread Will Robertson linked to a fascinating 8-minute BBC Horizon clip. \u00a0The video features an expert explaining how language changes how children process color in the brain.<\/p>\n

We also travel to Namibia to visit with the Himba tribe. \u00a0They have different color categories than we do in the West, making them “color blind” to certain distinctions we easily parse out, but revealing ways in which we, too, can be color blind.<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week I wrote a post asking\u00a0Is the Sky Blue?, discussing the way that culture influences our perception of color. \u00a0In the comments thread Will Robertson linked to a fascinating 8-minute BBC Horizon clip. \u00a0The video features an expert explaining how language changes how children process color in the brain. We also travel to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[664,15,373,23384,4156,675,2051],"class_list":["post-50232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biology","tag-culture","tag-color","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-nation-namibia","tag-psychology","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58275,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50232\/revisions\/58275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}